this means to tell a story. in old times they would travel and tell the stores about the events of the timeses. i need you all to stand up to learn these. excellent. take a stretch. lift our arms up high to the sky. we will start by creating trees. we will turn our arms into tree branches. our finger tips into leaves and we will sway in the breeze. when the wind picks up we will sway faster. we will make birds by taking our hands facing etch other, cross our thumbs and using our hands like bird wings. the birds are flying high above the treetops. in the forest is a river. we will lift our wrists and lower them to make water waves. very soft. you can hear the water flowing. in this river are fish. we will take the right hand over our left and use our thumbs like fish fins and let your fish swim through the water it takes a big dive. >> and growing next to the river are a bed of flowers. opening one hand onfinger at a time watching the flower petal blossoms. we will take our other hand and turn it into a butterifiy

story. that's true of marketing a product, the business and the owner's stories. in this particular case they've taken something that is generally seen as a commodity, salt and they've actually given it a story. i would suggest they could take it farther and give where the salt's from on the history of the people and the culture of the people that mine the salt. they definitery are on the right track. >> that's interesting like what we've done with coffee. >> exactly. and even some fruits have gone that route as well. >> these guys are foodies. to be, you know, people who aren't foodies are fascinated with foodies. people who are foodies is fascinated. it's a whole world of itself and creates something romantic. what if you have a boring business. you're creating a wigt. how do you create a story around that? >> sure. i think that there are certainly several examples of companies that have taken these basic products whether it be burgers or coffees or salt in this case and have created a new experience around it. i think that there's a lot to be learned from this p

these are short stories, a collection of 10. based on southern stories, my stories but based on stories that i heard. they were like stories i heard. one in particular comes from my growing up. we managed our monsters. i was the founder and first president of monster watches of america. i ate 6 boxes of crinkle cereal and in the mail i received 6 glow in the dark id badges, oh yes. and i invited 5 friends to join me. the most prized possession was the monster book, you know the monster rules, you know them. module no. 10, monsters cannot come within the circle of light. if you have light, they can't come in that circle of lot. monster rule no. 7, you don't play near where monsters live. isn't that common sense? why do they have people stay in houses and it says get out? i say who wrote that? [laughter]. so in my book when the house says get out, well get out. monster no. 5 says never lie about seeing a monster. we all know they are there, those of us that are believers. you can see them just out of your sight. hear them scratchin

this is a way to get people to focus on stories that are important to them as a community or individual or causes they are passionate about. >> just to piggyback on what she was saying, we have to rearrange the way we think about news. we might not read 5000-word stories anymore, but i know in all my other friends will read 5000 suites that have to do with one particular issue -- 5000 tweets that have to do with one particular issue. there was a case where a policeman in oakland killed a young man, and most of the reporting that came out about the issue was the road to a degree, but it had a certain perspective. the conversation was turned into where are the people from these communities? why don't they read our stories? why did they not call into our shows? there were huge questions. honestly, nobody really thought to look too deeply into it, but we noticed that these people were reading and having those conversations and getting into debt, but they were not doing it on the "chronicle" website. they were doing it on facebook. they were doing it in google groups. i cannot tell you how m

and understand it, but also know how to tell a story, understand how fact work, how confirmation works, how non- fiction story telling works. that is a big challenge. we also need to develop procedures within the community of journalism in the new media that are as thoroughgoing and really comprehensive about the nature of the practice of journalism for the new media as they were in the newsroom, say, 20 years ago. >> i think one answer to the question of how we police bias, at least on line, is that online news is a conversation, right? that is one thing that is great about it. when you are talking about a piece that runs on line -- online that people can immediately start commenting about, people can start talking immediately about whatever biases they have identified, and the writer can jump in and start defending the position. that is not possible in print. i think there's a sort of built in keeping-people-honest-ness about the medium. we want to report fairly at patch, but as we are asking people to share things about themselves, we want to share something about ourselves, s

was accurate, yes, if you with a nt to write a storyn gets migraines under the care of a doctor and medicated and everything is fine, and never cause problems if you with a nt to write that story. >> the final touchdown of the space shuttle atlantis kennedy space center, ending the 30 year shuttle program and ending 50 years of america putting americans in space, leaving u.s. astronauts to hitchhike aboard russian rockets and get to the space station. rich, americans believe, according to fox news poll, that it was president kennedy that had a much more on space exploration than president obama. is the media not pressing more on what's happened to the space program. >> i don't want to be a wet blanket, but i think the space program lost its romance a long time ago and a bust that went back and forth to the space station, another kind of white elephant. no, i don't think it captures the public imagination. >> it may have lost romance, but hasn't lost his interest, military defense. military defense. >> and does captain challenge that wit

if you think about the way a story gets published, of course it's on trust. and you rely on the people that work for you to be to behave in a proper manner and you rely on the clarity of information that you were given at the time. so that is why i can be so absolute with the committee today about the interception of milly dowler's voice mail from my own personal view, again not commenting on what other people knew at the time. to really say who derives trust the whole newsroom and the whole basis of the newsroom is based on trust. for example, at the sun if trevor who is my political editor came to me with a story, i knew it could be true. i didn't need to ask which mp or which cabinet minister had leaked him the story, i just knew it to be true because of the standing that he has and his experience as a journalist. again you could say that is based on trust. but that is how it works. >> and in a statement about the milly dowler statement, from what you now know that you didn't know before do you think people are likely to be convicted of crimes? >> again tha

so i think their reality is it is a very true story. he meant to have sex on moon rocks because he wanted to be like having sex on the moon. he spread among the dead and had sex on the moon. they have a problem with that theme saying he just put them under the mattress but that isn't true, she did this on purpose and so i use the facts but i tell it in my style and, you know, some people like it and some people don't. >> you are saying some journalists might not like it. or to a journalist or -- >> i never saw myself as a journalist. i saw myself in the entertainment business and i only stumbled into true stories. i always hated nonfiction and grew up watching really bad television and i was a fan of pop culture and movies and the nine entities and 90 kids in a bar and i was hanging out in a bar in boston called crossroads which if any of you go there it is an mit dive bar. [applause] there you go. i like that. if you can imagine an mit by far is a bunch of geeky guice -- i'm sorry, i am a geeky guy, too. [laughter] these guys have all t

every place in the desert is a story. every place is a passage way. it's really hard to walk very far in the desert for me because there are so many stories that start opening up and lead you from place to place and place and soon you start picking up the patterns of wind, of rain. you pick up the patterns of people who were there before you because, out there, things seem to last forever. if you put a footprint down in certain places, that footprint will stay for 5 years, maybe even 10 years for somebody who's got a really good eye where you come walking along and you see the slightest depression in the ground and you kneel at it and you figure out that it was a person with about a size 9 foot walking across the desert 8 years before you. everything out there tells a story. that's why i'm here. because i'm looking for stories. i'm looking for these same kinds of stories that i find in the desert. i came to hear straight from grace cathedral today where i walked into the cathedral and i took off my shoes and walked on the maze that's right in the front

that was a story we couldn't write, but i thought the future prime minister should know that. clegg and gordon brown should know that. i got a message to camera's office via my deputy to that effect. we know it got to his chief of staff. but his chief of staff didn't think that was worth passing on. >> did that put you in perhaps the uncomfortable position of offering advice to david cameron and other politicians about who they should or should not hire? >> it wasn't advice. he was free to do what he wanted. i went to see gordon brown and e-mailed nick clegg. i was doing it's cally with all the parties. i just thought particularly as this was a story that was being ignored, i thought people ought to know there was going to be a story at some point that everybody would be writing. haven't we seen that this week? just because we couldn't write it and blow it open then didn't mean that there wasn't serious mud coming down the slipway. >> you caused a huge stir at "the guardian" when you reported roughly a week ago that former prime minister gordon brown, that his family medical r

story about a tabloid story? > rose: tt's moreshakespearean. >> perhaps. >> rose: so tell me about joyce. w did you know about her? >> i read a lot of newspapers. this was an a.p. service wire story about a woman who had cloned her -- >> rose: dog.-- pit bull named , produced five -- five clones. her name is bernand mckinney, but at the bottom of the article they mentioned she might have been involved -- she might be joyce mckinney, she might involved in a 30-year-old sex and chain story. >> rose: sex and chain?sex and . >> rose: chained to a bed?yes. and it caught my attention. i ended up making a movie about it. >> rose: were you looking for ay jumped up at you? >> i'm always looking for stories. i mean, that's nothing unusual. this story jumped out at me. i had been thinking of doing a tabloid story. that had been on my mind. one of the characters in my movie "tabloid" describes that is t perfect tablo story. i believe they'r absolutely correct. >> rose: when makes the perfect? >> in this particular case the id

harry has a story, right? you know he has a story. that's what i'm looking for. if anyone knows him. >> strike up a conversation spinning i don't know what is next. >> what are you reading? what are you doing when you're not working on the books, and as you say just all the time that you're spending with the research, what are you reading and what writers inspired? >> right now the game of thrones is just amazing. >> you mean that because of the hbo -- >> i had started one before and i watched it and i was like this is great. so now i'm reading them all. those books are the reason can. >> is great because caring those books around is serious business. those are great. i read a lot of what comes out because i think sebastian younger is a phenomenal writer he is hard-core. back i will go to afghanistan and in bed himself while i'm embedded in vegas. he's in afghanistan. good for him. who else? i read it all. everything i can get my hands on. i loved the hunger games trilogy which is on. it was really good. >> do you see yourself, are you more accountable now with sc

story? would that happen? >> i can't remember an occasion where a prime minister asked us to not run a story. >> that's not a politicians general that would happen? >> no. i would say that i can remember many occasions when a cabinet minister or politician or a prime minister was very unhappy at the stories we were running. not that they pled directly for it not to run. as long as the story was true and accurate or was part of our campaign, are then there's no reason for a prime minister -- i mean, that's exactly why we have a free press. the. >> this is my final question. there's a feeling that in some way that you had a close relationship with the prime minister. the current prime minister. i think the allegation goes, it seems to me that it's no different than your relationship with the prime minister but just for the benefit of what people may perceive that you had a close relationship with the prime minister. that was helpful to him and certainly news international was helpful to him politically. but in return what news corporation was hoping for, whether that would in some way grease the wheels to the takeover. is

but in a story of this type it's understandable. nd and off the record is a daily existence. you understand how to maneuver around that and still get certainty. >> you not only have the odd culture of congress, but this unusual history of david wu. we can put up a picture of him in the famous tiger suit. this was a halloween costume he e. mailed out to colleagues. you gave the congressman four days to comment while you were in the final stages of the story. he declined. what was the trigger? why did you decide to go ahead? >> because while we were approaching him and trying to get some reaction from either him or his staff, at the same time we were developing other information and sources, and at each step getting closer to the certainty we needed. and at that point i sent a note saying yes or no, we're publishing because i play straight and they knew that we were close, and they still declined to comment. >> steve engelberg, in the past you've refused to investigate sexual allegations involving politicians. at "the oregonian" you wr

that was one of many stories this was a story that filled out filled up the majority of programming certain days so why can't they do it all why can't these networks say you know what yeah the kidnapping story sells the commercials or whatever but let's also think in some good stuff. money the bottom line is always comes down to money you know the paradigm example i used with my students as a journalism professor was if you've got a story of a county health care budget and it's been cut and that that decision is going to affect tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people in that county. if you've got a liquor store robbery where the owner was shot. which story are you going to cover well if you say if you want to do the health care story you've got to spin dozens if not more man hours analyzing that finding out where the money went and if you come up with a story that explains why dots so important to your audience you've got to come up with pictures. as my first news director said t.v. without pictures is radio and nobody listens to the radio i was communications direct

reporters thought it was a good story as opposed to hype bush ward works for nearly twenty years as a journalist with the philadelphia inquirer but after layoffs he left to work for health insurer independence blue cross before returning to work as a journalist that revolving door between the press and p.r. . yes and government is causing real concern about what the long term effects could be if the influx of spin doctors take over the message machine completely where there is very little journalism be done in an awfully lot of spin you create some dangerous circumstances for citizenry for democracy itself goes straight to questions white house spokesman jay carney worked for twenty years as a journalist for time magazine now he's president obama's spokes person former broadcaster and columnist tony snow went on to serve as a spokesperson for president bush and jamie rubin went from the state department under president clinton to executive editor at bloomberg news so common such as a common practice and no one no one is questioning or anymore in a time when hack and flack are often on

it's a true story and something that still exists now. ns god watches over -- this piece a girlfriend her boyfriend goes to war and she says, i was lucking to be in love for a little while. i had love and everything i could ever want and now he's off at war and i'm alone. and i don't know what will happen after this. will he kill another mother's child. will i have to live with that? god watch over my belove ed and all the mother's sons. [music]

i'm -- you know, it's -- unfortunately, there aren't a lot of african-american stories being told on broadway today, so it's such a delight for me to be able to be telling, you know, a story about you know, people in this world, you know? that's what i want to do i want to reflect what, you know, what is real life and real life is all different colors and all different experiences. and so, it is really nice to have people come and say, you know, this is the first play i've ever seen and thank you so much. that really is delightful to me. >> why aren't the people who make plays or who produce plays, why aren't they making more stuff for us if we come? >> i don't know. you got to talk to them. i -- i know that they are -- last year, they did "fences" and i knee sam jackson is doing a play coming up and i did "cat on a hot tin roof" in london. so let's just -- let's just look at it that hopeful think is getting better. i'm just going to say that. put out there it is getting better. >> fingers crossed? >> yeah, more stories for people of color, whether that's on tv, film, broadway. >> tel

given that there had never been a song like that before, where did it come from? well, that's an interesting part of the storyof people think that billie holiday wrote the song or that it was written for her, and in fact, she had nothing to do with it. it was written by a fellow named abel meeropol who was a schoolteacher in the bronx, a left-wing guy, later who became very famous for having adopted, along with his wife, the two orphan sons of ethel and julius rosenberg, but that wasn't until the 1950s. he was a schoolteacher in the bronx who cared about social issues and cared about civil rights and saw a picture of a lynching in the paper one day, and he was one of these very creative guys who was just always writing poems and music and shows. and he just sat down and wrote a poem about this photograph that he saw, set it to music. it was performed in left-wing circles in new york city throughout the late 1930s, at rallies for the loyalists during the spanish civil war, you know, among sort of left-wing types at their bungalow colonies in the catskills or rural new jersey, wherever they went. it was sort of

and a recap of our top stories is coming your way in just a few minutes stay with us right here on our to. the facts remain you the latest in science tends to come from you for sure if we go up the few jerks coverage. we'll. move. to just suit to. see. if. it was. coming. bringing you the top news and headlines from around the world this is our team i'm sean thomas let's get right to those headlines the debt crisis rages on both sides of the atlantic as a european banks failed stress tests for their vulnerability to financial troubles while america nears its fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling and. rupert murdoch floods the british media with i'm sorry messages days before a grilling by m.p.'s over the news of the world phone hacking scandal meanwhile the fear moves across the atlantic with the reports nine eleven victims of phones were targeted as continuing outrage and disgrace engulfs is once impregnable media empire. and preparation work is underway to lift a russian cruiser from the bottom of the volga river the operation is aimed at shedding more light on why the ve

a story still to come but first rupert murdoch has made a public apology for the phone hacking scandal that he called serious wrongdoing by the news that the world is rapidly losing allies on both sides at the antic with his media empire crumbling on all sides as i started checking the reports from new york it seems there's still a strong market for tabloid to nation. sex drugs cheating and lies phony political scandal flashing dirty laundry racy made up celebrity gossip and crime stories almost beyond human imagination. over this is served on a platter and sold for a couple of quarters by tabloids headless man it's all those bar or something. moms in the freezer. veteran journalist michael musto is one of millions falling for the bait of catchy headlines even though he knows the business inside out we don't break the law per se but they do have sleazy tactics i mean they will slam the story they probably make up sources i mean when you read them a source. a source said well who is it many times they can just make up the quote themselves and they say the queen said blah blah blah a lot

the characters and the year and the situation and the stories a father would tell a daughter. all this came out the camps, what happened. what he hoped for. what he wished for. all the stories he tells the daughters. some of them would have to cover that interment time and a lot is what happened from my research. all that went in the book. does that answer your question? it's not that i purposely said, now i will advocate this. but if a story line covers a certain aspect of history that you tell it to the greatest truth you can. you know, you talk about the situation and if you inhabit the characters, hopefully, in the right way you try to feel hathey would feel. >> thank you. >> we started reading your book in my classroom a couple of weeks ago. >> he's lifting the book up. they are disapointed because we haven't gotten to the part you read yet, it's okay the story is not spoiled. i want to thank bobby and alex for coming on a school night. i want to thank you, too. >> you are welcome. >> [laughter]. >> one of the things the book has done is opened their eyes to japan and japa

>> i saw it as a story of transformation. i saw it as a story of rebirth. i saw it as a story of someone who had been near dead or unable to live fully. and i saw it as a coming to life. and that is what has attracted so many people to the novel and especially to the movie, is that it doesn't... while we see the brutality, while we see the evil, we mostly see and exalt in this girl's coming to life, and, you know, we're rooting for her. and gabourey, our star, we're seeing her literally open like a flower, you know, become beautiful, become alive. >> hinojosa: and yet... and you know this, because, you know, the book was published in '96. and when the book came out, people were attacking you. they were like, "how dare you write this book? this is a horrible story. you are stereotyping our african american men and the entire community." >> exactly. >> hinojosa: oh, my god. and then when the movie comes out, you're basically attacked again. >> exactly. you know what? it comes with the territory. i made a conscious decision. you know, i used to be... or used t

story. but mostly as a great american story. >> it is a great american story. dan, thank you. and mark? >> my father said to me one day, my high school and college used me, the pros sold me, i was a basketball slave. and i'm sure there's a lot of athletes out here that after they've gone through the gamut and see where they ended up, they look back on their life and see a lot of similarities. the book not only talks about the harlem globetrotters, my father, but going through a struggle and being part of an international team that everyone knows about. and ending up, as a matter of fact, one of the other quotes that said basketball is a game of life. and god is the referee. that's how he looked at life. of on it this, i must say this. most the stories about the heroesing suffered some kind of alcoholism, drug problem, or something like that. my father wasn't that way. he raised six kids. we all stress education. >> you are a testament for that. thanks, mark. let's hear it for the panel. thank you for being here. thank you for your excellent question. i apologize for what i had to cut off

the proposal is for a 3-story single-family residence on a coral parcel -- corner parcel. it will eliminate one parking space. the project is to raise the overall building heights 42 6 inches to construct a new roof deck at the rear and eliminate of street parking and make other exterior modifications. the building is located within the required funds and set back and rear yards. the expansion will require a variants with the nonconforming structure. the variance hearing was continued until march 23, and it will be continued until august. >> we do not have a quorum. chair miguel: we are without a quorum. >> thank you. commissoner moore: continue. >> we will be consistent with the guidelines, and there is no requirement for the proposed expansion being compatible with any existing neighborhoods -- buildings in the neighborhood. it requires that the proposed reduction to the rear improves the stepping pattern along laidley. it provides for lateral slipping to biography. -- laterals slipping into poverty. -- lateral sloping topography. we recommend that you approve the projec